Stoke-on-Trent Local History - Audio & Video

You can listen to this audio programme in real time 
(no need to wait for files to download). 

SOURCE: the Staffordshire Multimedia Archive Web Site.

Working conditions for children: Denis Stuart introduces the survey of conditions for child labour in the Potteries area in the middle of the 19th century.   (Broadcast on 02/04/1969, duration: 25:21. BBC Radio Stoke)

also see: | Scrivens 1842 report into child labour in the Potteries | also see: | focus on Education in the Potteries |

 

Pit boy:  Reuben Cope of Bentilee is recalling his days as a boy miner fifty or so years ago. Listen to the Potteries dialect.  (Broadcast on 30/06/1974, duration: 14:45 BBC Radio Stoke)

also see: | Potteries Dialect |

 

 

 

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29/12/2001